Mishka Pillay

Mishka is a lived experience campaigner, advocate and writer on refugee rights and immigration detention in the UK. Mishka has been involved in campaigns and advocacy work since 2016. Mishka is the assistant lived experience campaigns coordinator volunteer as well as an Advocacy Liaison Volunteer at Detention Action. He is also volunteering with Detention Forum and is a partner of the International Detention Coalition. Mishka focuses on the rights of people seeking sanctuary and refugees and he is a member of One Strong Voice, a network of dynamic individuals and organizations based in the United Kingdom with direct lived experience of the UK immigration and asylum system. He is also a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists working group on the health of refugees and asylum seekers. Mishka is passionate to see a world without torture and being a part of the global anti-torture movement. He is a member of the Performance, Standards, and Effectiveness Committee.